Monday, September 28, 2009

So, I have to say, I'm completely enamored with my new Macbook Pro laptop. I never expected to love it this much. It's fantastic. It's completely changed my life.

Yesterday we arrived in Maui and were able to check our mailbox. Brett's gift from Jeannie arrived.

Also, we found a new oddly named product at Ross Dress For Less.

I found this video on YouTube. Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig had their performances interrupted in the Broadway play "A Steady Rain" last week when a theatergoer's cell phone went off in the front row.

Good for them! How is it that people still don't know to turn off their cell phones at theaters or movies or improv shows!?!

Sunday, September 27, 2009

We've been here in Hawaii so long that we've pretty much done all the touristy things. It's great to have a "normal", weekly activity. And, it's great just to spend the day hanging out with improvisers. I miss that.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

My computer has been coasting on fumes. It's 5 years old and has been heavily used over that time.

In the past few weeks it has been dying a slow death. My spellcheck stopped working. My thesaurus disappeared. My grammar-check imploded. All of my writing tools stopped working. For the last 150 pages, my writing program has been a rudimentary notebook.

I also cannot edit video or operate most of my software.

With all these problems, I still managed to use it 6 to 8 hours a day writing and using the Internet. There were some days that I swear I saw smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe.

Yesterday, I bit the bullet and bought a new computer. Not just any computer though. I bought a Mac!

I am now "that guy".

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Yesterday I taught the first of an 8 week class at Laughtrack Theater in Honolulu.

Afterward, we went to a hot dog restaurant called "Hank's Haut Dogs".

This is not your ordinary hot dog stand.

I had a Fat Boy hot dog, which was a deep fried hot dog wrapped in bacon.